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Collaboration Issues for NPs to Avoid

Nurse Practitioners in Business

Collaboration Issues continue to plague Nurse Practitioners. How can you avoid some of the problems, pitfalls, and issues? In this Episode of the NP Business Matters Podcast, I wanted to tackle some recurring issues I see all the time regarding NPs and collaborators. NPs often have question topics around collaboration, for example: Finding Collaborators Determining exactly what they need Occasionally, wanting to find a way to side-step a collaborator Trying to figure out what to do if they sudde

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What Gastroenterologists Need to Know About Managing Food Allergies in Clinical Practice

Consult QD

With an increasing incidence of food allergies worldwide, it is important that clinicians—and particularly GI specialists—are equipped to identify and manage these patients in clinical practice. “Approximately 30-35% percent of GI patients self-report having a food allergy, which speaks to the fact that food is a major trigger for GI symptoms,” says Anthony Lembo, MD , Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition, Cleveland Clinic, while also noting that 2-4% of individuals receive

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Fight Option Paralysis: Find Your Next Nursing Career Move

Minority Nurse

Choosing the right career path in nursing can be daunting, especially when the healthcare industry offers many specialties, roles, and opportunities. Getting stuck in what we’ll call option paralysis is a real possibility, and it takes focused energy and clarity to avoid pitfalls along the way. You don’t know what to choose when you have so many choices.

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Nurse Anesthesia School Trains Specialized Team of Critical Caregivers

Consult QD

Founded nearly 55 years ago, Cleveland Clinic’s School of Nurse Anesthesia was one of the first educational programs in the U.S. to formally train caregivers to work in the specialty. Originally established to fulfill a burgeoning need for qualified nurse anesthetists, the school has continued to meet this growing demand by educating scores of scholars every year on the most current evidence-based techniques for managing complex surgical patients.

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Fertility Benefits for Every Age: A HR Roadmap from Gen Z to Baby Boomers

Speaker: Lauri Armstrong, SHRM-SCP - Sr. Director, People Operations at Carrot Fertility

Today’s workforce includes multiple generations of employees all looking for something different from their benefits package. While meeting these disparate needs can be challenging, a comprehensive fertility benefit can support everyone from junior staffers learning about their fertility health to senior leadership managing menopause and low testosterone symptoms.

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How to Break Down NCLEX Questions

Joyce

The NCLEX is different from most tests you’ve taken during school. Instead of measuring your basic nursing knowledge, the NCLEX assumes you know your stuff, then tests how well you can apply it to real-world nursing scenarios. NCLEX questions can feel complicated, and answering them correctly requires careful reading, critical thinking, and strategy.

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Episode 31: From Erasure to Empowerment

Johns Hopkins Nursing Magazine

In today’s show, we’re talking about missing and murdered black women and girls with Dr. Kamila Alexander, associate professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, and Dr. Tiara Willie, assistant professor at the School of Public Health and Bloomberg American Health Initiative. This is a critical issue because 40 percent of all missing women… The post Episode 31: From Erasure to Empowerment appeared first on Johns Hopkins Nursing Magazine.

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World’s First Burn Nursing Specialty Certification Now Available

Daily Nurse

The Board of Certification for Emergency Nursing (BCEN) launched the world’s first Certified Burn Registered Nurse (CBRN) burn nursing specialty certification. To earn the CBRN credential, eligible RNs and APRNs must pass a rigorous national exam spanning the burn nursing continuum, including prehospital care and initial management, acute and critical care, post-acute rehabilitation, outpatient and community care, and aftercare and reintegration, as well as injury prevention, education, and p

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Military Environmental Exposures: Recommended Reading in AJN’s November Issue

Amercan Journal of Nursing

The November issue of AJN is now live. What should nurses know about caring for people who have been exposed to potentially harmful agents—such as air pollutants, chemicals, radiation, warfare agents, and materials containing asbestos and lead—during military service? Read “Military Environmental Exposures” to find out. Our November CE article, “Recognizing Transfusion-Associated Circulatory Overload,” reviews the most current definitions of this adverse transfusion rea

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The Relentless School Nurse: Have You Asked Your School District to Support Your NASN Membership? Here’s How!

The Relentless School Nurse

Well, friends, it worked in my school district, and I encourage you to try it in yours. Ask your school district to pay for your NASN membership as part of your professional development plan. NASN has tools to make the ask super easy! Remember, if we don’t ask, the answer is always no! The content of this email was retrieved directly from NASN : NASN Guide to Share With Employers NASN Guide to Share With Employers MEMBERSHIP BECOME A MEMBER NASN GUIDE TO SHARE WITH EMPLOYERS WHY YOUR SCHOO

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Why Menopause Should Matter to Today’s Employers

Speaker: Julie B. Chavez - VP, Strategy & Alliances at Carrot

An estimated 1.1 billion women worldwide will have experienced menopause by 2025. Symptoms like hot flashes, fatigue, and anxiety can be incredibly disruptive — and last for years. But despite its massive impact, little is being done to support those going through menopause in the workplace. In a recent survey, 70% of respondents said they have considered changing their employment to better manage symptoms — perhaps because only 8% received significant support from their employer related to meno

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CDC reports that more health workers are facing burnout and harassment

Health News Florida | Nurses

In the CDC's Vital Signs report, the agency suggests more than double the number of health workers reported harassment at work in 2022 than in 2018.

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Cleveland Clinic Cancer Center and National Organization for Rare Disorders Partner to Accelerate Diagnosis and Treatment of Rare Cancers

Consult QD

Often it takes several years for those with a rare cancer to receive a diagnosis, and even then, only a small percentage of these conditions have FDA-approved treatments. Adding to the complexity, many of these cancers have multisystem involvement. Cleveland Clinic Cancer Center and the National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD) are working together to shorten the diagnostic odyssey, reduce the time-to-treatment and improve patients’ outcomes, including quality of life.

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Episode 31: From Erasure to Empowerment

Johns Hopkins Nursing Magazine

In today’s show, we’re talking about missing and murdered black women and girls with Dr. Kamila Alexander, associate professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, and Dr. Tiara Willie, assistant professor at the School of Public Health and Bloomberg American Health Initiative. This is a critical issue because 40 percent of all missing women… The post Episode 31: From Erasure to Empowerment appeared first on Johns Hopkins Nursing Magazine.

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Want to end historic health care strikes? Fix a broken, outdated reimbursement model

Health Leaders | Nursing

The reasons why a nurse staffing crisis is happening have nothing to do with a lack of passion for the profession or care for patients. Rather, it has everything to do with poor working conditions that stem from an outdated reimbursement model for nursing services.

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Maximizing Your Benefits Strategy: Reframing the Way We View Fertility

Speaker: Lizzie Wright - Director of Customer Success at Carrot Fertility

Employee expectations around benefits and workplace support have evolved in step with the growing need for fertility and family-forming care. As HR professionals, it is our job to ensure employees have a comprehensive understanding of the benefits our organizations offer and how they can utilize them. Before educating employees, we first need to understand the rising healthcare costs and the financial burden of fertility care.

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A Guide to the Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Nursing

Joyce

There are many benefits to earning a bachelors in nursing, also known as a BSN degree. Having a BSN is a great way to kickstart higher degrees like a Masters in Nursing or a Nurse Practitioner degree, opens up more future employment opportunities, and even comes with an increased salary. But what do the courses in nursing look like for a BSN degree?

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The Tale Of An Evil Nurse

Empowered Nurses

Lucy Letby, a 33-year-old NICU Nurse in the UK was recently found guilty of murdering 7 babies and trying to kill 6 others over a two-year period. She killed or injured the infants by injecting air or milk directly into the stomachs of some, 2 were slain with insulin and others had their breathing apparatuses compromised. And these are only the ones we know about!

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RN to BSN: Everything You Need to Know

Post University

In a recent survey from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), 28% of employers require new nursing hires to have a bachelor’s degree, and 72% strongly prefer nurses holding a BSN. Nurses appear to be responding to the call. That same report stated that as of 2022, over 70% of RN’s held a BSN or higher degree. As we continue to redesign healthcare in the United States, the need grows for a large population of educated nurses who can help address the growing medical challenges of

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What to Consider About an Accelerated BSN? Program

Joyce

Ready for a career pivot? Check out Joyce University’s accelerated BSN program for non nurses. Our intensive, hybrid, fast track nursing program is designed to transform students with no nursing background into confident, qualified registered nurses (RNs) in as little as 20 months. If you’re driven, self-motivated, and ready to begin a rewarding nursing career with the potential to grow and lead, you’re in the right place.

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Leveling the Playing Field: How HR Can Equitably Improve Health Outcomes Through Fertility Benefits

Speaker: Julie B. Chavez - VP, Strategy & Alliances at Carrot

As HR and total rewards professionals, we are often seeking opportunities to foster a better sense of community and belonging amongst employees - ensuring that all employees have an equitable opportunity to receive fertility treatments is one of the many ways this can be achieved. Fertility benefits make it possible for employees to access treatments like IVF.

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The Best Leaf Peeping Destinations of 2023

The Gypsy Nurse

RTG Medical provided this article. As the warm weather departs, the leaves gracefully cascade from the trees, painting a landscape in breathtaking hues of reds, gold, purples, and more. Check out these beautiful leaf-peeping destinations on your fall travel assignment. Alaska Embark on an unparalleled journey at Denali National Park in Alaska , where the landscape showcases vivid reds, golds, purples, and the backdrop of snow-capped mountains.

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Nurses call for changes to address burnout, safety, staffing shortages

Health Leaders | Nursing

Nurses across the nation and around the globe have been making their voices heard through strikes, highlighting the dire conditions they face on a daily basis.

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Beyond the insider/outsider debate in “at?home” ethnographies: Diffractive methodology and the onto?epistemic entanglement of knowledge production

Nursing Inquiry

Abstract In this article, we discuss the practice of conducting research in one's own field, in this case, from a position as a researcher with a nursing background doing fieldwork in a hospital and in one's own organization, an orthopedic surgical department. We show how an “insider” researcher position paves the way for analytical insights about sleep as an institutional phenomenon in the orthopedic surgical infrastructure and how acute and elective patient trajectories differ but build on the

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Union nurses vote to ratify new contract with Rochester General Hospital

Health Leaders | Nursing

The Rochester Union of Nurses and Allied Professionals has solidified its new contract with Rochester Regional Health.

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Yale School of Nursing gets record gift

Becker's Hospital Review

An anonymous donor has gifted $11.1 million to Yale School of Nursing in New Haven, Conn., marking the single largest donation in the school's history. The university has committed to match the gift, according to an Oct. 25 news release.

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Suburban Chicago university using new program to combat nursing shortages

Health Leaders | Nursing

The first group of students in a first-of-its kind Master's Program, aimed at alleviating nursing shortages in the area, in Lake County are nearing the end of a clinical rotation in Evanston.